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Compute

First Ban The SAN, Then VMware

June 9, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

The conventional wisdom these days is that the server virtualization hypervisor is a commodity, and as the executives at hyperconverged infrastructure upstart Nutanix are putting it as they rev their software stack, “it is the new sheet metal for the cloud era.” …

Enterprise

VMware Attacks Hyperconvergence From Three Sides

June 8, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Any new system architecture gets its best chance of being adopted in the enterprise when it is paired with a greenfield workload that is more or less isolated from other software running in the datacenter. …

Expanding The Hyperconvergence Base

May 12, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

VMware seeded its market for hyperconverged storage and virtual server clusters based on its Virtual SAN (VSAN) with an open and very popular beta program ahead of its commercial launch, and rival Nutanix, wanting to aggressively expanding its own customer base, is hoping to crank up its sales through the launch of a freebie Community Edition of its Virtual Computing Platform. …